There’s also the whole that even if you get everything working successfully that when you send mail it ends up in recipients junk mail folders because Google/Microsoft/other big email providers are marking your domain as spam since it’s new and unrecognized.

There’s definitely other ways to achieve getting notifications without going to the extent of a full email server.

Copy that floppy!

This should be the only response to these platitudes from these people ever. We know they couldn’t give less of a shit.

It doesn’t have to be. While the real issue is like all surveillance, it will get pushed back against and then repackaged later as a “new” idea again.

We’ve been doing this song and dance since the Clipper Chips.

Once the politicians start realizing they cannot legislate math and that they are also at risk under these systems, we’ll see bigger pushback to them again.

a Lemmy user.

For sure, I didn’t mean to imply it isn’t! For exactly the situations when cops beat on someone and claim that they were being attacked or fearing for the lives. While bodycams have a host of privacy implications, on the other hand it’s a great tool (when not abused) to determine whether police are lying or not.

Defense attorneys are supposed to fight for their clients rights in an impartial way. They may have access to the evidence, but they did not personally see the crime happen.

A lot of this was built around a world prior to surveillance video being everywhere all the time giving a somewhat clearer picture into events, so for a lot of like public defense attorneys only fight as much as they can. Like if there’s clearly video proving it happened (not through video analysis alone but in combination with eyewitness accounts), the defense lawyer can do things like argue for a plea deal but that’s about it. With enough evidence, they have to be honest with their client about how realistic their chances are.

Some people who reject reality do things like say their public defense lawyer is shafting them when the lawyer actually can’t help them because of the wealth of evidence, and then they follow it up with further stupid shit like trying to represent themselves in court. The reality is the evidence is damning and they’re just stupid and irrational to think they can talk their way out of it.

As for people like Johnny Cochran, who represented OJ Simpson. They’re the same as anyone else for whom there is no moral and ethical depth they won’t plumb just so they can get paid a shitload of money. That’s no different than like Trump’s pool guy taking a sweetheart contract to do a job incredibly wrong. It’s just people who are willing to take the money and fuck the consequences because to them money trumps ethics and morals. So yeah they suck shit, but so does everyone like that, not just defense lawyers.

Also there’s the whole two different justice systems thing, which is part of the reason those kind of defense lawyers are so widespread. Hell, one of them is our Attorney General.

You know, just like Trump clearly doesn’t respect our laws, if we ever regain power, we should just simply treat things like this the way he wipes his ass with the constitution. Just fucking ignore it and scream at and berate anyone who complains.

lmao God I can feel the frustration rising in me just thinking about it. I know these are digital rather than physical objects… but do these people fail to have object permanence?

Definitely, but sadly it’s his lawyers job to argue things like this to protect their client. It also means a jury has to buy it, which they probably won’t if this is actually allowed to be used as evidence.

I would hope publicly crippling them would be enough, but I’d rather they get actual justice.

Wow, usually people lose their shit and complain that Element is too complex and that me and the devs are being assholes asking them to use it… You know kind of like all the people here on the Fediverse who think we need to make it bigger and bring in everyone from everywhere and that the devs and users who defend them are awful for not focusing on user interface first and making it less confusing to choose a server…

Anyway, thanks for being on team reasonable, because I’m with you on this 100%, but I can’t change how little people want to learn anything sadly so I make compromises with people who cant or wont learn how to do things. It sucks, people really don’t seem to understand that security and convenience are a balance, and every time people argue for shit to be easier they’re actually arguing for everything to be less secure. You sacrifice security for convenience, every time, and the opposite happens because you can sacrifice convenience for increased security measures. Security has to be complex by nature to be effective, and the core of Matrix is being a secure, encrypted protocol, which they have already actually put a ton of work into making easier for fucking normies. Yet, it’s never enough for people. Always screams of “It’s too complex! I hate thinking!”

Oh I was well aware at the time, but I had a lot of friends who still struggled with trying to use Matrix/Element so at the time I was seeking a simpler solution for them.

Further, a society that ends up relying on the work of vigilantes usually only happens in societies where the justice system is failing to do it’s job and people feel the need to become vigilantes to exact justice. Yet obviously what these groups do is not justice, although it may seem cathartic and akin to justice to people who think that hurting people who hurt others back is the only solution to anything at all.

It speaks ill about where our society stands and it fits in with the wider theme of conservatism wanting to dismantle modern society and make it fail to function so people stop relying on it. To them, the failure of the justice system and people turning to mob violence is part of the goal to keep citizens fighting among themselves instead of their masters.

These things really can destroy cases as a lot of stuff suddenly becomes inadmissible in court because it wasn’t presented through proper channels and jurists may be requested to ignore it entirely. At least this is how it can work in the USA in a lot of cases.

Further, depending on the circumstances of how the initial connection to the pedophile in question was made, it can be potentially considered a type of entrapment, as it may be able to be argued that if this person did not present themselves as a willing child to begin with that the perpetrator may have never attempted to pursue such a crime.

The fact that they’re backed by right wing politicians kind of says everything: They’re way more concerned with looking like they’re doing something about the social issue of pedophiles while actually not doing very much at all. There’s also a suspiciously high number of people in these “catch a pedophile” groups who end up being convicted of some sort of pedophilia themselves, as though they’re projecting their own disgust with themselves and/or they think people won’t suspect them of it as long as they’re busy busting others for it. The conservative right wing only cares about appearances, not real solutions, while allowing the Epstein class to continue trafficking, raping, and killing children.

This is why corporate promises can never be trusted, because a new CEO can change those promises on a whim.

It’s part of why despite being interested in Beeper, I never signed up for it because I had questions about if those privacy promises they made would be kept if they sold to a bigger company… which they eventually did.

On the plus side Bitwarden already made an official open source self-hosted version, which can be forked and/or return to the community developed Vaultwarden roots.

Meanwhile KeepassXC keeps on chugging along.

I’m shocked, shocked.

Well, not that shocked.

'Member when all the liberals were glazing the New York Times simply because Trump called it “the failing New York Times” so they felt the need to get subscriptions to help the newspaper *checks notes… prioritize conservative voices and pave the way for a second Trump presidency.

Pepperidge Farm 'Members.

Wild, I have never had that issue on desktop or in Jerboa.

If you forget to select a language when making a post, the language becomes “undetermined.”

The vast majority of people do not take the time to mark the language of their post, and so Lemmy files them under “undetermined” because there is no language information.

When making a post, when you choose the “Undetermined” from the language-selector, it just pops it back to asking you to select a language, because the point of “Undetermined” is that no language metadata has been added.

So in your user settings page, if you remove “Undetermined” from your list of languages, you will not see most posts since most people do not actually choose a language for their post.

I personally do not find this confusing at all.

I just thought it was interesting that someone could not know what a tracker was and also be, you know, using one.